Obama: 'America already has one Dr. Phil'

McCain's campaign staff is full of slimeballs from top to bottom.

Phil Gramm and the UBS is under seige for the housing failure, Gramm lobbied (helped write) the new parameters in 2007 that were to spell out relief for consumers and banks as well as pushed for the banking deregulation that got us here. Remember Katrina? That's the kind of help Gramm was talking about (for the consumers).

So, for the poor folks, the ones the Neocon nut Repubs pushed religion so zealously on to assure you all that your reward is waiting in heaven...McCain and his crooked staff members aren't going to wait that long, they'll take theirs now.

Phil Gramm lobbyed for the banks during the mortgage crisis while advising the McCain campaign at the same time on its economic policies.
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But Obama is part of the problem when it comes to high energy prices. If fact, Obama said it wasn't so much the high price of energy that bothered him, but that it happened too fast.
Taxing oil companies will not bring the price of gas down. More drilling, more supply will bring the price down. Simple Econ 101.

O.K., so if we put all the rhetoric together. We are a bunch of whiners and complainers (Gramm) that cling to guns and religion (Obama).

Got it!!

Taxing oil companies will not bring the price of gas down. More drilling, more supply will bring the price down. Simple Econ 101.

Posted by: Green Trees | July 10, 2008 3:11 PM

Green Jeans, you sound like a windup doll with your constant whining about drilling (you must be a lobbyist for big oil Repubs). The Big Oil companies that you neonut Repubs are in bed with already have thousands of miles of offshore leases they can drill on...and yet they don't. They don't do it because they know that the few drops of oil that are out there aren't worth the price of going after it.

McCain promise's to offer you less jobs and more war if he's elected, America:
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I love it when Republicans show their true selves -- rich fat cats! Of course to Gramm and McCain there's no problem with the current state of the economy, they're filthy rich.

Obama needs to HAMMER McCain over and over on this, as does the media (I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for McCain's media friends to criticize Mr "Straight-Talk" though).

These comments from Gramm and McCain about how our tanking economy is just a "pschological problem" are just outright detached from the reality of real Americans' lives.

Yes we're whining because of your part in the housing and oil crisis.

If an Obama advisor had said America is a country of whiners, the media would be screaming and yelling full throttle demanding the advisor be fired. Let's see what happens with a McCain advisor.

My guess: as much coverage as McCain got when he joked about killing Iranians, and flip-flopped on the Bush tax cuts, and confused Iran and al Qaeda, and flip-flopped on abortion, and flip-flopped on Iraq, and on and on an on...

McCain has 7 houses with his own artificial lakes and Gramm has his own multimillion dollar portfolio tied to big oil and big business. In addition to that McCain is getting almost $56,000/year in disability payments from tax payers.. so why would they whine about the state of the economy?
McCain and Gramm are laughing at the 72% of people who are struggling one way or another in their lives just to put food on the table.

The great Obama thinks that The Economy is no different than making a pot of coffee. You put in a filter, fresh coffee grinds, double up on the coffee grinds if you are a guy, pipe in some water, kick the switch, and it is a done deal. Everything will just come into play in the right proportion, at the right time, all as one in harmony with the universe. In about 3 minutes +/-, there will be something in a cup that resembles coffee.

The great Obama has craw-fished on nearly everything else except the Economy to this point. In 3-dimensional space, up, down, left, right, zig-zag, sideways, bottom sides uppers, it's all the same. His rhetoric does not convey any sense of any level of complexity. He is as clueless as the next neophyte.

At least Obama injects a sense of reality into the discussion of present economic politics. His tough love candor is actually refreshing among the stench that normally emanates from lobbyist controlled-Washington. No amount of additional lease granting to Big Oil will improve the situation in the next presidential term, let alone the next decade. Sorry, its just not that fast, and its not that cheap. And its really not all that much oil we're talking about. The fact that Big Oil hasn't bothered drilling on the leases they have already been granted (in spite of $140 oil) proves that they will likely not drill in this new drilling windfall either. In spite of what anybody says, short of a plague in the developing world, there is very little that can be done to immediately impact oil prices. Sure, allow Big Oil to drill, but don't call it anything but what it is - a land grab windfall for Big Money multinational corporations to invest in future profits. Cold Turkey sucks, America. We know. So stop you're whining and deal with it.

Wouldn't it be nice if John Mccain was a figment of our imagination?

Maybe if we get rid of enough "straight talkers" like Mccain we'll get over our "mental recession".

This might sound dumb, but since the oil companies' profits are enough to make their WHOLE EXTENDED FAMILIES rich for the rest of their lives, why don't they lighten up and have some compassion on the US consumer???...How much money do they have to HAVE anyway??? I've never seen such HOGS in my whole life!!!

I still say it's all newtie's fault!